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The Hunting of the Snark is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis
Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It
describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to
find an inconceivable creature.

Beowulf
is an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines,
set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of
Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell
Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th
and the early 11th century.The manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept
through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir
Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem fell into obscurity for decades, and its existence
did not become widely known again until it was printed in 1815 in an edition
prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jonsson Thorkelin.

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank
verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The poem concerns the
Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen
angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose,
stated in Book I, is to justify the ways of God to men. Paradise Lost is widely
considered one of the greatest literary works in the English language.